2010-10-06

If you walk through the hallways of Archbold Middle School, you might see skinny jeans and two-toned hair while hearing the word “legit” this season. Those are just a some of the trends taking hold at the school. Eighth graders Cassidy Williams and Meridith Short, 13, and Stephan Manahan and Gavin Morton, 14, discussed the latest AMS trends in a […]

Sentences were recently handed down against three persons in Fulton County Common Pleas Court: •Sara Heath, 27, Delta; previously pled guilty to one count assault; caused physical harm to another on April 24; ordered to serve 10 days at Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio (work release granted); placed on one year community control, ordered to pay prosecution costs, obtain a […]

The Archbold boys varsity soccer team dropped a 3-0 contest to visiting Wauseon (2-7-1), Thursday, Sept. 30. The Streaks fell to 8-3 on the season. Wauseon’s first goal came in the 22nd minute on a successful penalty kick by Havier Rendon. Shortly after halftime, Alex Stuck scored on a free kick near midfield after an Archbold infraction. The fi- nal […]

Most people wouldn’t consider picking watermelons a team-building exercise, but that’s exactly what the Archbold eighth grade football team did. Norm Beck, one of the team coaches, and 13 members of the eighth grade squad traveled to Indiana early Saturday morning, Sept. 25, to pick watermelons for charity. Beck said the melons went to a Toledo food bank. Justin Lovejoy, […]

The Pettisville cross country teams saw action last week in a Tuesday, Sept. 28 tri-meet with Otsego and Patrick Henry and in the Edgerton Invitational on Saturday, Oct. 2. At Otsego, the boys team won, beating the home team by one point. The Birds had 27 points; Otsego had 28. The girls finished second with 30, five points behind Otsego’s […]

Dennis Howell, Archbold village administrator, said Archbold Village Council has changed its meeting dates for the next two months. The changes were prompted by schedule conflicts. Council will meet on Oct. 11 and 25 and Nov. 8 and 22. Council will revert to its traditional first-and-third Monday schedule in December. The dates are Dec. 6 and 20. All meetings are […]

The Pettisville volleyball team avenged a Sept. 14 Buckeye Border Conference loss at Stryker with a 25-16, 25-14, 24-26, 25-22 victory in the Bird Cage, Thursday, Sept. 30. Combined with a Tuesday, Sept. 28 victory over Hilltop, the Birds remain tied with Edon for the lead in the BBC. Both are 6-1. PHS opened the week, Monday, Sept. 27 with […]

Greg LaBarge, Fulton County agricultural extension agent, said corn yields are varying widely as farmers pick the 2010 harvest. “As we look at the yields, they’re pretty wide-ranging, from 135 bushels to the acre, up to 200-plus,” he said Monday. Compare those figures to a Fulton County five-year average of 166 bushels per acre. “That’s not surprising with the weather […]